Sports Rig the Vote: A History of All-Star Selection Shenanigans

Can’t nothing keep Manny from the All-Star Game!

Turns out you can’t keep a good, fun-loving, dreadlocked, prima donna baseball player down for long (well, maybe if his estrogen is particularly low you could…). Currently serving a 50-game suspension for testing positive for a banned substance, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Manny Ramirez finds himself a few votes short of making the Major League’s All-Star Game in July. He returns from his ban July 3 and the game is July 14, and there aren’t any rules prohibiting him from playing should he get enough fan votes to make it as a starter.

Not surprisingly, this has the dignitaries in the sports blahblahblah-o-sphere very indignant. And of course that’s produced a similarly predictable host of nose thumbers who’ve started an Internet campaign to get Manny elected just for the eff of it (get your contrariness on here). But this isn’t the first time voting irregularities have clouded an All-Star game, as you’ll see with our History of All-Star Selection Shenanigans…

Sports 5 Bombshells Not Published in Joe Torre’s Memoir

Joe Torre’s third person memoir (plausible deniability, ya dig?) The Yankee Years drops next Tuesday, but it’s already causing controversy in the sports world. In excerpts released this week, the former Yankee manager throws a bunch of his ex-colleagues under the bus, and we’re sure there will be more buzz when the book hits stands next week.

What won’t be in the book, however, are the following excerpts'obtained exclusively for Complex.com*'deemed too juicy to print. You’ll never look at the man Derek Jeter calls Mr. Torre the same again…